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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 29, 2000Geauga County, Portage County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2000, 6:49 PM EDT for Geauga County, Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 2000, 6:49 PM EDT (22:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2000, 7:20 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Geauga County, OH, Portage County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 138 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2000-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2000-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -29 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1327 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KCLE 292252
SVRCLE
OHC055-133-292315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
649 PM EDT THU JUN 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GEAUGA COUNTY IN OHIO...
  PORTAGE COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 720 PM EDT

* AT 649 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SOUTH RUSSELL...OR 
ABOUT   16 MILES NORTHWEST OF RAVENNA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS 
STORM WAS MOVING ALONG PORTAGE-GEAUGA COUNTY LINE.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  SOUTH RUSSELL
  MANTUA
  GARRETTSVILLE

HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND STRONG GUSTY...POSSIBLY DAMAGING 
WINDS ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY 
STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN CLEVELAND.

$$

VRCEK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 10:36 AM EDTTornado WarningCLECuyahoga, Lorain24 min
Jun 29, 3:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina47 min
Jun 29, 6:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECuyahoga, Summit27 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.